Marty Crump: Frog Day | Buch

Cover: 9780226830209 | Frog Day | A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Amphibian Lives | Marty Crump

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"From morning to night and from the forest to the desert, what do frogs do all day? In this short book, celebrated biologist Marty Crump shows readers exactly how frogs spend their time. Each chapter covers a single frog during a single hour, highlighting twenty-four different species from around the globe. At midnight in Indonesia, we hear the rustle of leaves above. It's not a bird, but Wallace's flying frog, using its webbed feet and emerald-green skin flaps to glide through the forest canopy. Other amphibians might hide from the morning sun, but not Madagascar's orange-red tomato frog. If its showy coloration doesn't discourage predators, a sticky mucus-powerful enough to glue a snake's jaws together-provides a means of escape. At dusk, in a Peruvian rain forest, we see a giant spider-a hairy tarantula-and what looks like a tiny amphibian pet taking shelter in its burrow. Other frogs make a tasty meal for this tarantula, but the dotted humming frog is a friend, eating the ants that might otherwise make a meal of the tarantula's eggs. For each chapter, award-winning artist Tony Angell has depicted these scenes with his signature pen and ink illustrations. Working closely together to narrate and illustrate these unique moments in time, Crump and Angell have created an engaging read that is a perfect way to spend an hour or two-and a true gift for readers, amateur scientists, and all frog fans"--

Über den Autor

Marty Crump is an adjunct professor of biology at Utah State and Northern Arizona Universities. She has been a herpetologist for more than fifty years, working with tropical amphibians to study parental care, reproduction, territoriality, cannibalism, and tadpole ecology. She is the author or coauthor of fourteen books, including A Year with Nature and Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog, Adder's Fork and Lizard's Leg, both also published by the University of Chicago Press. Most recently, she is editor of Lost Frogs and Hot Snakes: Herpetologists' Tales from the Field.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Genre:	Importe
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Hobby & Freizeit
Thema:	Tiere/Jagen/Angeln
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13:	9780226830209
ISBN-10:	0226830209
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Crump, Marty
Illustrator:	Angell, Tony
Hersteller:	University of Chicago Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	158 x 128 x 27 mm
Von/Mit:	Marty Crump
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.10.2024
Gewicht:	0,281 kg